Welcome to the Times of Israel's Daily Briefing. Today is Wednesday, October 15th,

day 740 of the war. Amanda Borschall, Dan here with our culture editor, Jessica Steinberg,

whom you all also know from hosting our podcast. Hi, Jessica. Thank you so much for joining me today.

Hey, Amanda. It's good to be here. So good to be here. And four additional bodies of hostages

were returned last night, making a total of eight returned to Israel. Among them was Tamir Nibrodi,

whose family had not officially been notified of his death in Gaza until his body was identified overnight.

With his return, we have closed the times of Israel's Those We Are Missing Project, which Jessica headed and detailed what we knew about hostages and their capture on October 7,

2023.

Jessica has covered the efforts of hostage families to free their loved ones over these past

two years, and the battle is not over as 21 bodies remain in Gaza, including three foreign

nationals and Hadar Golden, who has been held

since 2014. Jessica and I will discuss what we are hearing about the now-released living

hostages statuses and their sagas after the break.

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I'm Amanda Borchelle, Dan, here with our culture editor, Jessica Steinberg.

So at recording time, a total of seven of the eight hostage bodies returned by

Hamas over the past two days have been identified. They are named as Yossi Sharabi,

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